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Hi everyone. I've joined many in-person language exchanges and always found it hard to get the whole group engaged or get something out of it. Maybe someone is a beginner or they can't really teach their own language well. The idea with this game is anyone from any level can practice both their target language and help others practice theirs. It's free, no ads and currently only on ios. The game is called word head. It's focused mostly for beginners and B1. The idea is, in a group, one person has to guess their target language word from a set list of words in a category. Everyone else has to give hints (in your target language or your native). For example, if they choose an easy difficulty and the category is Food, they have to guess from a list of 20 foods. Afterwards you can swap the language and the other players can practice from the English words.

Languages:

• English
• Español
• Français
• Deutsch
• Italiano
• Português
• Arabic
• 中文繁體
• 中文简体
• 日本語
• 한국어

For now it's only on ios: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6753888185 It's called Word Head.

I'm also looking for feedback:

• I'm considering removing the hard diifficulty level and combining it with Easy / Medium + 10 harder words.
• I'm also considering adding a hint function to give a person a hint in their target language how to give hints for the word. For example, the word is "hot", the hint to explain the word might be "not cold"

I created a marisa.cr library and wanted to share it around.

usage: ``require "marisa"

trie = Marisa::Trie.new trie.add("snow") trie.add("snow cone") trie << "ice cream" # same as add ``

More info in the link

For context I created a video search engine last year, I shut it down and put the data online. You can read about it here: https://www.bendangelo.me/2024/07/16/failed-attempt-at-creating-a-video-search-engine/

I put that project on hold because of scaling issues, anyway I'm back with an other idea. I've been frustrated with how AI slop is ruining the internet and recently it's been hitting Youitube pretty hard with AI videos. I’m brainstorming a tool for people to selfhost:

Self-hosted crawler: Pick which sites/videos to index (blogs, forums, YT channels, etc.). AI chat interface: Ask questions like, “Show me Rust tutorials from 2023” or “Summarize recent posts about homelab backups.” Optional sharing: Pool indexes with trusted friends/communities.

Why? No Google/YouTube spam—only content you choose. Works offline (archive forums, videos, docs). Local AI (Mistral) or cloud (paid) for smarter searches.

Would this be useful to you? What sites would you crawl? Any killer features I’m missing?

Prototype in progress—just testing interest!

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